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Inbreeding, Incest, and the Incest Taboo: The State of Knowledge at the Turn of the Century Paperback - 2004 - 1st Edition
by Wolf, Arthur P
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- Title Inbreeding, Incest, and the Incest Taboo: The State of Knowledge at the Turn of the Century
- Author Wolf, Arthur P
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 228
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press
- Date 2004-11-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # ING9780804751414
- ISBN 9780804751414 / 0804751412
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.84 x 6.9 x 0.52 in (22.45 x 17.53 x 1.32 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004003967
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.877
From the rear cover
Is inbreeding harmful? Are human beings and other primates naturally inclined to mate with their closest relatives? Why is incest widely prohibited? Why does the scope of the prohibition vary from society to society? Why does incest occur despite the prohibition? What are the consequences? After one hundred years of intense argument, a broad consensus has emerged on the first two questions, but the debate over the others continues.
That there is a biological basis for the avoidance of inbreeding seems incontrovertible, but just how injurious inbreeding really is for successive generations remains an open question. Nor has there been any conclusion to the debate over Freud's view that the incest taboo is necessary because humans are sexually attracted to their closest relatives--a claim countered by Westermarck's argument for the sexually inhibiting effects of early childhood association.
This book brings together contributions from the fields of genetics, behavioral biology, primatology, biological and social anthropology, philosophy, and psychiatry which reexamine these questions.
That there is a biological basis for the avoidance of inbreeding seems incontrovertible, but just how injurious inbreeding really is for successive generations remains an open question. Nor has there been any conclusion to the debate over Freud's view that the incest taboo is necessary because humans are sexually attracted to their closest relatives--a claim countered by Westermarck's argument for the sexually inhibiting effects of early childhood association.
This book brings together contributions from the fields of genetics, behavioral biology, primatology, biological and social anthropology, philosophy, and psychiatry which reexamine these questions.